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An Event: Ready To Tell “Smart Women” About The Nez Perce In Yellowstone

May 8, 2012September 8, 2012 / mmarkmiller / 1 Comment

I'll focus on the human drama of the Indians' encounters with tourists in Yellowstone Park.

A Tale: Guiding the Nez Perce Through Yellowstone Park — 1877

September 10, 2011October 27, 2011 / mmarkmiller / Leave a comment

"After traveling about a mile, I heard seven distinct shots fired, and supposed all the persons had been killed."

On Writing: Cubism, Narrative History and the Nez Perce

May 31, 2011August 25, 2011 / mmarkmiller / 1 Comment

"Like a Cubist painting, the final narrative won’t always arrange things in the way that people are used to seeing them, but I hope it will be compelling and enlightening."

Narrative History or Historical Fiction 3: A Moonlit Night In Yellowstone Park, August 23, 1877.

May 21, 2011March 23, 2012 / mmarkmiller / 8 Comments

"Emma couldn’t have known that Yellow Wolf and his band of Nez Perce scouts had seen the bonfire and were planning to attack the camp the next morning."

A Tale: A Battle With Fleeing Nez Perce — 1877

March 31, 2011February 19, 2012 / mmarkmiller / 5 Comments

"I saw half a dozen guns leveled at me so I made myself small as I could.... Bang! bang! bang! then zip! zip! zip! went the balls, but none struck me."

A Tale: Emma Cowan Visits Mammoth — 1873

January 6, 2011January 17, 2011 / mmarkmiller / Leave a comment

"My fairy books could not equal such wonderful tales. Fountains of boiling water, thrown hundreds of feet into the air ... pools of water in whose limpid depths tints of various rainbows were reflected." mounds and terraces of gaily colored sand.”

A Tale: Angering Old Faithful — 1877

September 21, 2010April 19, 2013 / mmarkmiller / Leave a comment

Did you ever wonder what would happen if you dumped a ton of rocks and rubble into Old Faithful? Frank Carpenter found out.

Researching Attitudes Toward Indians

September 7, 2010July 5, 2012 / mmarkmiller / 1 Comment

What would it feel like to wake up in a wilderness with a lead slug embedded in your skull and remember watching your wife being dragged away by hostile Indians?

A Tale: Captured by Indians by Emma Cowan—1877

August 5, 2010March 8, 2014 / mmarkmiller / 8 Comments

A young woman watches in horror while Indians shoot her husband in the head.

M. Mark Miller is a fifth-generation Montanan who grew up on a small ranch north of Yellowstone Park. His earliest memories are of his grandmother telling about her trip to the park in 1909 and her father and grandfather's trip there in 1882. Miller has capitalized on his life-long interest in Yellowstone history to assemble anthologies and write fiction and literary non-fiction. Explore these pages to find out more about his life, books and speaking.

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Intrepid explorers document the area's wonders, then lobby for creation of Yellowstone Park.

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Tourists tangle with Indians fleeing a pursuing army.

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Women tell of their adventures in Yellowstone Park more than a century ago.

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A 14-year-old boy tries to save his companion who fell into a geyser — and battles horse thieves.

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Bite-size stories of adventure and humor with geysers, waterfalls and bears.

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A woman is captured by Indians. A man is lost 37 days in the wilderness. And ten more exciting stories.

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